Louisiana highway payroll reveals 15 legislators or relatives employed
O K Allen, chairman of the Louisiana highway commission, disclosed a list of 15 legislators or relatives employed by the commission from May 1928 to May 1930, with total salaries of about 30,290 dollars. The highest pay was 550 dollars monthly for general maintenance, while 400 dollars a month led the list for other legislators. CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
O. K. Allen
Louisiana Highway Commission Today
Commission
Senate Public Rods Committee
Highway Department
Allen
Johnson
Washington
Constitutional League
J. L. Anderson
Grant
H. D. Bozeman
Winnfield
Highway Commission
E. B. Robinson
Union Parish
Postmastership at Vicksburg certified for three men
Civil service commission certifies Michael J. Mulvihill Jr John Carter Stamm and William G Paxton for the Vicksburg Miss postmaster position. Hawley Smoot tariff bill taken up in the house for final vote expected around 5 pm with GOP leaders confident of passage by at least 80 votes. Kilbourn formerly of Whitesburg Ky shoots himself in hotel bathroom after long illness police report the hotel owner who says he had lived there five years and a Masonic card from Whitesburg lodge found.
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Washington
The
Civil Service Commission Today
Michael J. Mulvihill, Jr
John Carter Stamm
William G. Paxton
Vicksburg
Miss
House
New Orleans
W. K. Kilbourn
Whitesburg
Julia Raymond
Kilbourn
Gas Fraternity to Test in Richland Parish
Captain R P Webb inspector announces Island Gas company will drill on 18 000 acres in Richland Parish near C W Earle No 1 location 3 16 5. Previous well produced 21 305 612 cubic feet daily at 2 499 feet with 1075 psi rock pressure. If successful, deeper sand development could link Monroe and Richland gas fields.
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Webb
Island Gas Company
James A. Noe
Mr. Noe
Fee
Palmer Corporation
C. W. Earle
Monroe
Richland
Lasker matriarch leaves $82,500 to charity in will
Mrs Nettie Davis Lasker mother of Albert D Lasker leaves 82500 to charity with the remainder to descendants and relatives. Most 32500 goes to trust for benevolent causes while 5000 is given to the Lasker Home for Homeless Children in Galveston Texas and 2500 to the Morris Lasker playground trust. Sol Davis of Shreveport Louisiana brother of the deceased will receive income from 15000 for life. The will was filed after her May death.
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New York
Nettie Davis Lasker
Albert D. Lasker
Shipping Board
Lasker
Galveston
Tex
Galveston Playground Association
Morris Lasker
Sol Davis
Shreveport
Newspapers of Nation Join War on Killer of Reporter
United Press reports Chicago leaders face public anger after reporter Alfred J. Lingle is shot in a subway. Calls rise for Police Commissioner William R. Russell and Chief of Detectives John Stege to resign or retire. Seven metropolitan dailies unite against gangland violence as national press backs capture and swift punishment, with judges accused of leniency.
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Chicago
Alfred J. Lingle
William R. Russell
John Stege
United Forces
Lingle
Tribune
Russell
Stege
The
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Brewery of Beer Barons Burns in Chicago Blaze
A 1,000,000 brewery linked to Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake was destroyed by fire on June 14. The five story brick plant at 21st Street and Albany Avenue burned from an undetermined cause, drawing 15,000 spectators as fire crews fought to save the structure and a water tower toppled with the roof. The facility, once padlocked in 1926, later reopened as the Troy Ice and Beverage company a year after.
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Chicago
Terry Druggan
Frankie Lake
21St Street
Albany Avenue
Druggan and Lake
Troy Ice and Beverage Company
Cotton Market Slumps Under Heavy Selling Pressure
The New York cotton market fell sharply as selling accelerated, pushing new crop positions to season lows and breaking the list below 14 cents a pound. July dropped to 13.85 cents while October slipped to 13.15, with overall close at season lows amid weak May consumption and weak wheat trends.
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Associated Press
New York
Nine Communists Convicted in Imperial Valley Case
Nine communist leaders in California were found guilty of criminal syndicalism by a superior court jury in El Centro. They face two to fifty years in San Quentin. The charges include agitation of strikes in Imperial Valley cantaloupe fields, encouragement of sabotage, and soliciting workers for membership in the organization.
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EL Centro
Cal
San Quentin
Imperial Valley
Congressmen to Tour Red River Area This Summer
The House flood control committee led by Rep. Frank R. Reid of Illinois plans an inspection tour of the Red river valley this summer. Reid says the full committee should visit the area instead of a single member. Rep. Aswell will inform Alexandria Mayor V. V. Lamkin of the tour date.
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Alexandria
House Flood Control Committee
United States
Frank R. Reid
Illinois
Red River Valley
V. V. Lamkin
Reid
Red River Area
Aswell
2 300 Bottles of Jamaica ginger Ordered Destroyed
Judge Ben C. Dawkins ordered destruction of more than 2 300 bottles of Jamaica ginger found sub standard. Seized consignments included drugs store stocks in Monroe Bastrop and here at Collens Five Points Pharmacy and Illinois Central and Missouri Pacific depots. Milner Motor Co intervener in sale of an automobile used to transport liquor. lien settled for costs.
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Ben C. Dawkins
Jamaica
Monroe
Bastrop
Collens
Five Points
Illinois Central
Missouri Pacific
Land Drug Company of
Cincinnati
American Products Company of
Kansas City
United States
Milner Motor Company
B. L. Lecrease
Publishers to Hold Session in Baton Rouge
North Louisiana and South Louisiana newspaper publishers plan a joint meeting in Baton Rouge next Wednesday at 11 a m to oppose two pending state measures. One bill would enjoin perpetually the publication of obscene or defamatory material. The other imposes a 15 percent gross tax on all advertising in Louisiana daily newspapers.
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O. L. Breazeale
Natchitoches
North Louisiana
The
Louisiana Press Association
Isaac Chapman
Bastrop
Baton Rouge
South Louisiana
State Press Association
Wingate
Louisiana
Long
Fewer Traffic Deaths in New Orleans This Year
New Orleans safety council director William Leppert announced that 11 fewer traffic deaths occurred from January to May this year compared with the same period in 1929, praising city accident-prevention efforts.
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New Orleans
William Leppert
Hambone Meditations and Racial Caricature Note
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century publication uses dialect to describe a mule drenching a truck and a daughter foreseeing events. The text foregrounds racial caricature and imagery without clear narrative context.
Convict Woman Found Guilty in Husband’s Death
Lester Underdown and Mrs. Hattie Evans were found guilty of murdering Robert Evans and were sentenced to die in the electric chair. The jury, after two hours and a half of deliberation, returned the verdict with no mercy recommendation.
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Associated Dress
Tom’s River
N. J
Lester Underdown
Hattie Evans
Robert Evans
Naval Air Station
Claude Carmichael
Madison Chappel
Evans
Albert Duffy
Underdown
Orleans City Employees Paid in Cash Pay Day Report
In New Orleans on a pay day, city employees received about $60,000 in cash. Mayor T Semmes Walmsley cited cash payments to avoid bank check hesitations as banks restricted loans against anticipated 1930 taxes. The city sourced over $1,000,000 from private lenders. remaining June salaries total about $350,000.
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New Orleans
T. Semmes Walmsley
State
Huey P. Long
Pastor Declines To Forgive Son Even At Death
Greenwich, Conn June 14 United Press reports Reverend Samuel Neighbors of St Alma Tenn refused to forgive his son Samuel Jr who ran away to sea and died in the Thames fire The body was recovered from Long Island Sound and the undertaker received a telegram from the clergyman Saying Let his estate insurance or employers defray expenses Bury body there Samuel Neighbors Jr a deck hand was among 16 dies when the Thames was destroyed weeks ago
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Greenwich
Conn
Samuel Neighbors
St. Alma
Three Children Die in Cave-In at Shubuta
In Shubuta Mississippi on June 14 a sand and clay bank cave-in crushed to death five year old Jimmie Reynolds and two other young children, a white girl and a black child, buried beneath falling earth. Their father labored frantically to rescue his daughter but the three victims died from suffocation and injuries as rescuers arrived.
Cotton consumption falls from April despite May gains
May cotton statistics from the census bureau show lint consumption at 473,917 bales and linters at 68,779, down from April and May of last year. In consuming establishments, lint 1,531,346 bales and linters 237,505. public storage and compresses hold 3,337,360 lint bales and 89,173 linters. Imports for May are 53,328 bales. exports 208,796 lint and 10,460 linters. Active spindles in May total 28,374,434.
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Associated Vess
Washington
Census Bureau
Boy Killed in First Try at Hopping a Freight
A sobbing father described his 17 year old son Edgar Basele’s death after a first attempt to hop a freight train. The boy fractured his skull in a leap as the train gained speed, while two companions reportedly escaped unharmed. Authorities did not release further details.
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New Orleans
Emile Basele
Edgar
American Sugar Raises Refined Sugar Price
New York June 14. The American Sugar Refining Co raised the price of refined sugar by 10 points to 4.70 cents per pound, effective June 17. Reports from Boston indicate the Revere Sugar refinery will lift prices by 10 points to 4.60 cents, effective at the opening Tuesday.
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Associated Press
New York
American Sugar Refining Co
Boston
Revere
Daniels and Lyon to Wed Tonight in Hollywood Hotel
Los Angeles June 14. Noted film stars Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon will marry tonight at 8 30 in a Hollywood hotel with the film world gathered to witness the ceremony.
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Los Angeles
Bebe Daniels
Ben Lyon
Hollywood
Schmeling United as World Heavyweight Champion
Cincinnati June 14 Max Schmeling was recognized by the National Boxing Association as the heavyweight champion after beating Jack Sharkey on a foul. Isaacs NB A president said the decision honors the in ring result and that both fighters were paid with no blame for the foul finish.
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Cincinnati
Max SchoaNing
Jack Sharkey
National Boxing Association
Mr. Isaacs
New York
Schmeling
Sharkey
Perjury Charge Filed Against Capone in Miami
In Miami on June 14, Scarface Al Capone faced perjury charges after a nullified padlock case over his Palm Island home. Capone had just seen nuisance charges dismissed for lack of evidence and left his residence amid congratulations before warrants were issued. State Attorney N Vernon Hawthorne vowed to oust Capone, promising to pursue him throughout the summer.
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Associated Press
Miami
Scarface al Capone
Palm Island
Chicago
S. D. McCreary
Capone
N. Vernon Hawthorne
Dade County
Charges in Arkansas election war heighten campaign rhetoric
NORTH LITTLE ROCK Ark June 14 Both Gov Harvey Parnell seeking re election and Brooks Hays candidate for governor are controlled by political rings which dominate their every move. Judge John C Sheffield of Helena gubernatorial candidate charged in a campaign address here last night. The highway commission was sharply criticized by Sheffield.
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North Little Rock
Ark
Harvey Parnell
Brooks Hays
John C. Sheffield
Helena
Highway Commission
Sheffield
Pleasure Cruise Disaster Injures and Fatality Report
A Baltimore dispatch reports a Pleasure Cruise wreck on Lake Erie where one man died and four others including a woman were rescued after the C J Swift Bag company building burned. Charles J Swift, owner, a paralytic, perished in the flames. Nearby storms in Minnesota and Wisconsin left five dead and more than a million dollars in damage as tornadoes ripped towns including Menomonie.
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Baltimore
C. J. Swift Bag Company
Charles J. Swift
ST. Paul
Minn
National Guardsmen
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Menominie
Wis
Four on Cleveland pleasure cruise drown in Lake Erie
A small sail boat with three men and a girl capsized on Lake Erie near Cleveland. All three men William Brown John T Higgins and Robert Burrington drowned. The 12 year old girl Olive France survived three hours in the water clinging to a life preserver until rescued by Gordon T Manning of Highland Park NL.
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Cleveland
Lake Erie
William Brown
John T. Higgins
Robert Burrington
Olive France
Gordon T. Manning
Highland Park, NL
Fatality from collision as flatcar flies into worker
A flatcar derailed and was hurled from the rails at Randolph Minnesota striking a workman and killing him instantly. Search parties began at dawn to aid missing and injured in remote storm areas as scores suffered injuries in the southern region.
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Randolph
Minn
Piore
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